I recently was consolidating quite a few pieces of a microservices application into a single Aspire solution (which I highly recommend, by the way, and if you need guidance for sure check out the official docs but I also have a Pluralsight course that can help). While doing the setup, I came up with a technique to …

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Creating great prompt experience for yourself - one that works for YOU - can help with productivity. I've spent some time setting one up for me, and some people have asked me about it. If these things work for you, great and feel free to use the setup as-is. But I definitely encourage you to make sure that whatever …

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If you're working with Visual Studio on a daily basis, taking a little time to customize your experience and knowing about a few key features can help make your time spent both more productive and more joyful -- if you're happy when you're in the IDE (Integrated Development Environment -- Visual Studio is one of those) …

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My last 3 posts were all about writing good integration tests for your ASP.NET Core API projects. But how much of your code do the tests you've written actually cover? And what's missing? Show me the Code! The code I used as a reference for this article is in the same repo as the previous posts I did about integration …

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Where's the code? A fully working example for this code is in the 01-simple-api folder of the GitHub repo with the examples for this series of posts: https://github.com/dahlsailrunner/testing-examples/tree/main/01-simple-api. The tests are in the SimpleApi.Tests project (surprise!). Having automated tests to ensure …

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Problem Statement A recent blog post of mine showed a significant performance difference between an async API method and a synchronous one. The performance test was generating 100 new requests each second for 30 seconds, making a total of 3,000 requests. The async code behaved much better under this load, but at what …

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